Welcome to the new Winter Is Coming!

Today marks this blog’s 6-month anniversary! I figured this was the perfect time to update the look of the site to something a little more clean and professional. I hope you like it! If you have any other suggestions or things you think I should do with the site just use the Contact link above and let me know. I am still relatively new to this blogging thing, so I would love to hear any ideas you guys have about improving this site.

I started this site 6 months ago after hearing about the pilot order from HBO. I was so excited and looking forward to all of the news and announcements that would be coming out as the pilot production got underway. I wanted to know everything there was to know about the pilot. I felt like there needed to be a central place where anything and everything related to Game of Thrones could be reported on and discussed. I thought that other ASOIAF fans would feel the same way. Well, exactly 6 months and over 100 posts, 1,000 feed subscribers, 2,500 comments, 85,000 visitors and 300,000 hits later, it looks like I was right!

The news about the pilot has been a bit slow in coming out. But if you think about it you will realize that we know quite a bit more about this project than we did 6 months ago. We got to see the pilot script, we know where and when they will shoot, we have a director and our first cast member. I am sure the next 6 months will be even more exciting as they fill out the rest of the cast and start ramping up the production to film later this year.

So I hope you will continue to visit Winter Is Coming for all of your Game of Thrones-related news. I think we have built up a nice community of readers and commenters on here. I have enjoyed discussing the various rumors, news and other topics with everyone and hope we can remain here discussing these things, not just for the next 6 months, but for years to come!

• Published on 05/19/2009 at 6:20 AM CDT
• Last updated on 05/19/2009 at 6:20 AM CDT